[registrars] calls from "Domain Registry Support"

[Larry Erlich]

You're right. That is the fax and it does say
"to: 206..." at the top. In looking at it quickly
I just scanned the top for the obvious place
for the fax number. My mistake. I also hadn't seen your
message yesterday (yet). Now I see where you attached the .tiff file
which is what Ram forwarded (your original email was not attached to that).

Larry Erlich




Jay Westerdal wrote:
> Larry,
> I sent a message to the list yesterday regarding that
> exact fax you speak of, I assume Ram read our list
> and forwarded it to you. Just to correct the garbled facts.
> 
> 
>>>The fax came from 206-337-0652 and included a phone
>>>number on it [...] 
> 
> 
> That is incorrect, it was sent TO: 206-337-0652. I should
> know as that is my fax number. The caller ID on the sender
> was not given but on the fax it said sent, "FROM FAX
> 1-888-248-9510 NOTIFICATION SERVER". However because there
> was no called ID I can't verify that is truly the number
> it came from.
> 
> Larry,
> If for some reason we are talking about a different
> fax and someone is truly sending faxes using my number can
> you please post it to the list.
> 
> Jay Westerdal
> Name Intelligence, Inc.
> http://www.nameintelligence.com  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Larry Erlich
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:52 AM
> To: registrars at dnso.org
> Subject: [registrars] calls from "Domain Registry Support"
> 
> I received an email yesterday from
> Ram Mohan of Afilias about a fax that a customer
> (I assume) of his received from an organization calling
> itself "Domain Registry Support".
> 
> The fax came from 206-337-0652 and included a phone
> number on it 800-591-7398.
> 
> This "Domain Registry Support" is sending out faxes
> apparently called "Urgent Notice of Domain Extension" which
> is just a twist on the "include reference to US Legal Code to
> try and get you to think it is legit" scam.
> 
> I'll try and get a pdf of this posted (I don't have a scanner
> at work believe it or not) if anyone cares about this.
> 
> Ram wanted to know if DomainRegistry.com was behind this
> and obviously *we are not*. Let me repeat that DomainRegistry.com
> has nothing to do with this or the other 60 flavors of
> this that have happened over the years.
> 
> (Apparently Ram had seen me driving
> around in a Maybach 62. I actually can afford this car
> solely as a result of
> drug profits and gambling. So it was natural for him to
> think I had figured out an easy way to make money
> in the domain business.)
> 
> Just today I received a phone call from the same organization
> by phone asking me to verify some information. I hung up after
> getting the 800 number, which was the same one on the fax. If you
> do a search for 800-591-7398 can see what some other people
> think of this.
> 
> In any case the domain is "domainregistrysupport.com" which is
> a Wild West domain protected by Domains By Proxy.
>